This week at the ICENet blog, we’re trying something different. We’re connecting to the Academic Life in Emergency Medicine (ALiEM) blog. With > 50k visits per month, ALiEM is a major (digital) connector/influencer in academic […]
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Category: Technology
Social Media and the SoMe Summit
By Jonathan Sherbino (@sherbino) Medical education, like many other academic disciplines, can become a victim of buzz words. Self-directed, asynchronous, operationalize, etc. (Don’t even think of using the word “passion” in front of me.) It seems to me […]
Logbooks to Track Clinical Teaching?
By Jonathan Sherbino (@sherbino) I’ve commented previously on the ICE blog about the challenges that a CE faces in being recognized for their academic productivity. In the Department of Medicine at McMaster University, there is a fairly […]
Tech-enabled Direct Observation of Performance
Today’s guest post is from Deepak Dath a hepatobiliary surgeon and CE at McMaster University. – Jonathan (@sherbino) By Deepak Dath (@drddath) A hallmark of competency based medical education (CBME) is frequent, direct observation of performance. […]
Tech and Health Professional Education
By Jonathan Sherbino (@sherbino) Technology and health professional education is a perennial hot topic. I suspect that the invention of papyrus was a big step forward for Hippocrates and his followers. 2400 years later (i.e. 2014) the […]